HA! Try reading reports written by librarians.

First of all none of them can agree as to what they are. The term
"librarian" has been replaced by "information science". This is silly
because there are no rules of the field, nothing that can be replicated
again and again. Some of the names I found for librarian were "knowledge
engineer" and "information specialist" (which is at least closer).

I wrote a paper in library school (oops, School of Library Science) that
pointed out that we are a guild with trade secrets. Wasn't allowed to
publish that one.

Secondly, librarians love acronyms and bad puns.

IMHO, the term "science" is used because it is a way of placing ourselves
in a higher category, one that gets more respect and grant funds.



At 09:33 AM 1/22/03 -0800, you wrote:

>Let me explain why I'm such stickler on the 'methodology' thing (ouch...
>hurts to even type it). I think using that word, rather than 'methods' is
>part of a continuing effort on some peoples parts to sound more intelligent.
>Why use these fancy words that sound scientific, when a perfectly suitable
>word all ready exists? It's called writing in plain language.


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